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http://dx.doi.org/10.5338/KJEA.2016.35.1.09

Toxic Effects of Binary Mixtures of Heavy Metals on the Growth and P Removal Efficiencies of Alcaligenes sp.  

Kim, Deok Hyun (Department of Environmental Biology and Chemistry, College of Agriculture, Life & Environment Sciences, Chungbuk National University)
Yoo, Jin (Department of Environmental Biology and Chemistry, College of Agriculture, Life & Environment Sciences, Chungbuk National University)
Chung, Keun Yook (Department of Environmental Biology and Chemistry, College of Agriculture, Life & Environment Sciences, Chungbuk National University)
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Korean Journal of Environmental Agriculture / v.35, no.1, 2016 , pp. 79-86 More about this Journal
Abstract
BACKGROUND: This study was initiated to quantitatively evaluate the effects of five heavy metals on the growth and P removal efficiencies of Alcaligenes sp., known as the Phosphorus Accumulating Organisms (PAOs). It was cultivated in the batch system with five heavy metals, such as Cd, Cu, Zn, Pb and Ni, added in single and binary mixtures, respectively.METHODS AND RESULTS: IC50 (half of inhibition concentration of bacterial growth) and EC50 (half of effective concentration of phosphorus removal Efficiencies) were used to quantitatively evaluate the effects of heavy metals on the growth and phosphorus removal Efficiencies of Alcaligenes sp. In addition, Additive Index Value (A.I.V.) method was used to evaluate the interactive effects between Alcaligenes sp. and heavy metals. As a result, as the five heavy metals were singly added to Alcaligenes sp., the greatest inhibitory effects on the growth and P removal efficiencies of each bacteria was observed in the cadmium (Cd). In the binary mixture treatments of heavy metals, the treatments of lowest IC50 and EC50 were the Cd + Cu treatment. Based on the IC50 and EC50 of the binary mixtures of heavy metals treatments, most interactive effects between the heavy metals were found to be antagonistic.CONCLUSION: Based on the results obtained from this study, it appears that they could provide the basic information about the toxic effects of the respective treatments of single and binary mixtures of heavy metals on the growth and P removal efficiencies of Alcaligenes sp. through further study about the characterization of functional proteins involved in toxic effects of heavy metals.
Keywords
Alcaligenes sp.; Binary Mixture; EC50; Heavy Metals; IC50;
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